eBaywatch: Stuff You Maybe Need

Let’s see, let’s see . . .

Nothing says Lift Tie the Cross quite like this, which actually lifts it twice, just to be sure.

In these troubled economic times, more and more institutions of higher learning are forced to cut costs any way they can: salary reductions, heavier teaching loads, streamlining of core-curriculum requirements, and the selling off of underutilized sections of the physical plant. For example, Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, seems to be unloading its Social Religious Building. Imagine what you could do with such a —

What? Oh. Somebody’s selling a picture of the Social Religious Building. Well, never mind, then.

More ties. Nothing says Two Weeks After Father’s Day . . .

I dunno. This seems snarky, and I’m more on the doorbell-ringers’ side than not. I’m certainly not going to call them ugly names or slam the door in their faces. On the other hand, on the doorstep with bread dough all over my hands and the Slaughter of the Innocents going on in the background is not my favorite context for theological conversation. And I really am happy with my religious affiliation and am not likely to be talked out of it, but thanks for stopping by.

I’m all for buying up church silver and returning it to churches. Not sure how I feel about buying up silver-toned plastic. No, on second thought, I am sure how I feel about it.

This item is billed as a “Strange Religious victorian morality litho Gothic,” which just about sums it up.

If you don’t like Strange Religious victorian morality litho Gothics, there’s always this apparition.

And finally, the first-place winner of today’s Irresistible Ad Copy Award: a Religious Traditions of the World textbook described as “NEW, NOT USED, NEVER NEEDED.”

Don’t read ‘em, don’t weep, I guess.

Hey, Al, would you give the ratings machine a kick? Ooh. Maybe not that hard. The shattering sound is not a good sign.